Court of Appeals of Kentucky May 28, 1817 (Gibbs v. Cook)

*535OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Owseet

—On the first day of March 1787, in the state of Pennsylvania-, Edward Cook, the ancestor of the appellee, and the appellant, as appears by a writing exhibited in this re-cord, entered into an article of agreement; and after reciting that the said Edward apprehended lip was possessed of a tract of land containing 1500 acres, on the waters of Green river